Prognosis
What the U.S. and Europe Can Learn From Asia’s Two-Month Virus Battle
- Test, trace, isolate and inform are keys to epidemic control
- Big data and technology helping nations with surveillance
A health worker waits at a drive-through testing centre in Seoul on March 7.
Photographer: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images
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The spreading coronavirus has health officials from the U.S. to Europe searching for answers. To find them, they could look to the experience of Asia, which has been battling the deadly pathogen since January -- with some success.
In a little over two months, the highly-contagious disease has traveled from its epicenter in Wuhan, China to at least 108 countries, sickened over 119,000 and killed more than 4,200 people. Governments everywhere are struggling to curb outbreaks, locking down their borders and shutting down large parts of their economies.